1984

1984-5 Reactions From the Public in Amritsar
Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal
With a bleeding heart, I returned towards the Dukh Bhanjani Beri with the officer. The stinking smell made me feel lousy. Near Dukh Bhabjani Beri, the officer told me that he had to visit the Tactical Headquarters of his...

1984-3 Sri Darbar Sahib
Dr. Dalvinder Singh Grewal
I travelled by bus from Patiala and reached Sri Amritsar on 9 June 1984. The entire route was badly barricaded and there were too many checks by soldiers and police. Every check made me...

1984-The Prologue-1
Dr. Dalvinder Singh Grewal
I have been deeply attached to the Sri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) Sri Amritsar since my childhood. This attachment got further increased when I was posted to 15 Artillery Brigade in Amritsar in 1974 from field area in Kashmir. Our going to...

After a page or so on the events of 1984 that we all know, this essay focuses on some terms and concepts that are critical to the issue and are not yet a part of our lexicon or conversation. So bear with me.
Humans are not the only species with a moral sense but perhaps no other species has...

How Pope Francis made me better appreciate my Sikh faith (COMMENTARY)
Satpal Singh | September 26, 2015 |
(RNS) On Friday (Sept. 25), I sat onstage with Pope Francis at a multifaith service at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City. I was invited to offer a prayer from the Sikh scripture...

On the day Bhindranwale was declared killed, I, a Hindu stranger, was at his house. No one killed me for looking Hindu, but Sikhs in Delhi were massacred for being Sikhs.
Getting from Moga to Rode turned out to be a long haul. I could not find a taxi. The bus services were still jagged. I...

Where are the 1984 Sikh Manuscripts and Articles?
Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal
1925 Basant Avenue,
Ludhiana
Twenty five years have passed since the Sikh Manuscripts were taken away from Sikh Reference Library, Harmandir Sahib, but their where about still remains a matter of discussion. The...

1984 AS I SAW-PART I
Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal
It was 3 June1984. I was posted as General staff Officer of a brigade and was also performing the duties of Camp Commandant in Madhya Pradesh. Around ten AM we got the news of attack on Sri Harmandar Sahib. It made me shell shocked. Seeing me...

1984 Living History is a project that started last year. A group of young volunteers realized that many people who experienced the events in 1984 are aging and may not be able to tell their stories for much longer. So they started recording people's experiences. They have made a simple format...

The title caught your eye? Good. You might be wondering what the connection between the two is. Guru Arjan’s time was largely in the late 16th and some in the early 17th centuries. How do I hope to link him to 1984, and to what purpose?
The Orwellian events of 1984 are now history...

“The Sikh Research Institute is excited to launch the play Kultar’s Mime to facilitate conversation on 1984 among masses to invoke Guru Nanak’s sensitivity to suffering, especially in genocidal campaigns,” says Harinder Singh, SikhRI’s CEO. Envisioned and produced by playwrights Sarbpreet Singh...

A family, consisting of a mother and her two children, who witnessed the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984, stepped out of their house in Moga, Punjab, for the first time in 30 years.
The trio - identified as Nirmal Kaur, her daughter Kamaljeet and son Inderpal Singh - were forcibly removed from their...

Senior lawyer of Supreme Court and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader HS Phoolka questioned here on Sunday why former prime minister Manmohan Singh had kept quiet about that fact all these years that his house had also been attacked during the 1984 riots against Sikhs in the national capital.
In a...

By Parmjit Singh Published: May 9, 2014 Sikh Siyasat
New York, United States (May 09, 2014): It is learnt that US based human rights group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) will submit a complaint to the UN assistant secretary general for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic seeking UN investigation into the...

New Delhi: Spelling more trouble for the Congress, a sting operation by Cobrapost has claimed that the Delhi Police acted in connivance with the then state government during the 1984-anti Sikh riots.
The sting shows many Delhi Police officers alleging that some top brass officers worked in...

A plea seeking the prosecution of four Delhi Police officers for allegedly destroying the records and files of a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, has been dismissed by a court here saying those documents were not relevant and their preservation was not required.
Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau...

Arvind Kejriwal demands special investigation team probe into 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Arvind Kejriwal has demanded an investigation by the Special Investigation Team into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
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